The Battle Royal Analysis

The Battle Royal is about a narrator who is speaking in the voice of a man in his 40s having flashbacks about his youth. He remembers when he had not yet discovered his identity or realized that he was an invisible man. In this short story he used animals as a way to express analogy. He used various animals but I only chosen three; the cottonmouth, crabs, and wolves. One of the best animals he used was a wolf. A wolf can be described as a wild carnivorous mammal of the dog family, living and hunting in packs. The author says. “All of the town’s big shots were there in their tuxedoes, wolfing down the buffet foods, drinking beer, and whiskey and smoking black cigars.” The narrator refers the big shots as the wolves. The wolves come in town preying on people that they fell that are lesser than them. They think they run everything. These wolves run in packs. Therefore, they only do their dirty acts together; they feed off each other negative feed. Another animal that was in the short
One of the animals was a crab. A crab can be described as crustacean with a broad carapace, stalked eyes, and fire pairs of legs. The author says, “The boys groped about like blind, cautious crabs crouching to protect their midsections, their heads pulled in short against their shoulders, their arms stretched nervously before them, with their fists testing the smoke-filled air like the knobbed feelers of hypersensitive snails.” The author refers crabs to the boys. The boys were afraid to fight each other in the ring. Unfortunately, they were blind folded to fight each other or they would get punished. Also, they were blind folded so they were scared and they did not know where they was going or doing. The Royal Battle was a good short story. The author used animals to help the understanding of the story. By, the author using the animals as an analogic factor, it put an interesting taste to the